Back in June of 2005, I decided that I'd been sluffing off my responsibilities as a conscientious member of the Daily Grind for far too long: the number of comics that'd dropped from the contest at that point had reached into the double digits, and there were still some contestants whose work I'd barely glanced at!
So, surrendering to my inner academic, I assigned myself three Daily Grind comics per week: I would read their archives from the beginning and then write up my impressions in the form of rambling personal essays that, for want of a better term, I called "book reports." Yes, my inner academic is apparently a fourth grader...
This, then, is the main page for those reports.
First, you should read the Introductory Essay just to get an idea of why this whole thing was really kind of a stupid idea on my part, then you can move on to the essays themselves as outlined below:
06/06/05 [Intro: why I shouldn't write reviews]
06/13/05 [First Essay: PvP, Todd and Penguin, and Strange Town]
06/20/05 [Second Essay: Melonpool, Yirmumah!, and Frogherder with a note on the passing of The Big Three-Oh]
06/27/05 [Third Essay: The Devil's Panties, Normal Life, and Modern Heiroglyphics]
07/04/05 [Fourth Essay: Superosity, Funny Farm, and The Filgym Cycle/Jam Blab]
07/11/05 [Fifth Essay: Real Life, Caffcomics, and Fatty at Amazing Amoeba]
07/18/05 [took a week off because of the Comic-Con International in San Diego]
07/25/05 [Sixth Essay: Greystone Inn, Jamie Dee Galey's Comics, and Darkside Bluezz with an update concerning PvP and Todd & Penguin]
08/01/05 [Seventh Essay: Arthur, King of Time and Space, Knights of the Old Coding/Super Store, and Lone Star State]
08/08/05 [Eighth Essay: Dalton Sharp's Crown Commission site and his LiveJournal, Chemical Comics Daily, and Abrandoned Kids with a quick update on Normal Life]
08/15/05 [Ninth Essay: MouseWax, If Nobody Likes Me, Why Am I So Popular? and The Non-stop Sketchbook with a Long Introductory Piece that Mostly Proves I Shouldn't Try to Think]
08/22/05 [Tenth Essay: TartPop, Tasty Human Meat, and The Bougie Daily Comic]
08/29/05 [Eleventh Essay: Cortland, Uncle Comics, and Young Adventure Friends]
09/05/05 [Twelfth Essay: Beer Before Liquor, Trains of Thought, and Remi Treuer's Comics with a brief note on the passing of Super Store]
09/12/05 [Thirteenth Essay: HOUSD and Phil In The Blanks with a brief note on the passings of Real Life and the The Bougie Daily Comic
09/19/05 [Fourteenth Essay: Tru-Life Adventures and Karltoons with a brief note on the passings of Phil In The Blanks and Strange Town followed then by a bit of summing up]
12/19/05 [Fifteenth Essay: Notes on the Passings of Superosity, Abrandoned Kids, Fatty at Amazing Amoeba, Normal Life, and Remi Treuer's Comics along with Thoughts on Comics in General and My Own Comics in Particular]
01/02/06 [Sixteenth Essay: Notes on the Passing of Melonpool along with a Report on the Webcomics of Ralph E. Hayes Jr.]
01/17/06 [Seventeenth Essay: Notes on the Passing of Caffcomics along with a Report on Tales of the Mynarski Forest and Fuzzy Things]
Or you can just forget the whole thing and head on back to the Main Page. That'd be my recommendation...